Lead Software Engineer, Backend

About Grab and Our WorkplaceGrab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.Get to Know the TeamThe Financial Engineering team builds safe, secure and high throughput payments primitives. We oversee a range of platform primitive components such as Wallet, Reconciliation Engine and API Gateway. We take pride in building distributed systems that have a impact on the lives of millions of users in our endeavour to out-serve the underserved population.Get to Know the Role You will have opportunities to design backend services. Not only will you get to collaborate with the product, business, and program management teams to be on top of your deliverables, you will also serve as a mentor to your teammates to help meet the teams' deliverables and goals. This role is based in Vietnam and onsite. You will report directly to the Vietnamese Engineering Manager.The Critical Tasks You Will Perform Design and develop robust, scalable, and high-performance software applications using GoLang. Identify, prioritize, and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting. Collaborate with a cross-functional team to define, design, and ship new features and functionalities. Lead the architecture and coding standards efforts, ensuring clean & efficient code. Implement modern best practices and patterns in software development. Mentor junior software engineers, providing guidance and support to foster their growth and development. Conduct code reviews, ensuring coding standards, best practices, and security guidelines are adhered to. Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software. Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development to continuously improve our products and processes.